Shingle



H. ABRAHAM.

SHINGLE.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 15. 1920.

L. Patented Deo. 112, 1922..

Patented Dee.. 12, 1922.

HERBERT ABRAHAM, OF

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NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 THE RUBEROID COMIPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

SHINGLE.

Application filed November 15, 1920. Serial No. 424,061.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HERBERT ABRAHAM, a. citizen of the United States, residing at the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improve.- ments in Shingles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in shingles made of so-called prepared roofing, and has for its object to provide a roof covering whereby an illusion of shadows is produced along the exposed endsor butts of the shingles. According to my invention I provide a shingle which may be laid with either endexposed and which is provided on its surface with two parallel, transverse, narrow black stripes, so disposed that when a plurality of such shingles are laid in overlapping courses an appearance of shadows is produced along the eX- posed ends of the shingles.

lVhile prepared roofing shingles are both economical and efficient, the greatest objection to their use resides in their thinness and the consequent lack of the desired ornamental appearance of massiveness of a roof cove-ring composed of such shingles. My invention overcomesthis disadvantage by producing an illusory effect of increased thickness.

In my pending application, Serial No. 341,791, filed Dec. 1, 1919, I have shown and described a shingle having a band of contrasting color extending transversely across -the middle of its surface, the edges of which serve as gauge marks for laying the shingles with either end exposed, and which bands produce a shadow effect in the spaces between the sides of the exposed portions of adjacent shingles.

liiiy present improvement iS particularly applicable to such shingles, and when thus applied results in producing shadow effects along the ends, as well as at the sides, of the exposed portions of the shingles, thus causing said portions to apparently stand out in bold relief and thereby obtaining a very attractive and ornamental appearance.,

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure l, represents a shingle embodying my invention; and,

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a section of a roof partly covered with such shingles.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a shingle composed of prepared roong, that is, made of a material consisting of roofing felt saturate-d or impregnated with a suitable bituminous composition. The shingle is preferably provided with a band 2 of contrasting color extending transversely across the middle of its face, as described in m pending application, Serial No. 341,791, filed Dec. 1, 1919.

Disposed above and below the edges of the band 2, and extending parallel to said edges, are a pair of narrow stripes 3-3 which are formed of dark coloring matter applied to the face of the shingle. The stripes 3 are sufficiently wide, preferably 3,-, so as to produce the effect of shadows along the butts of the shingles when a. plurality of such shingles are laid in overlapping courses,

.and they are preferably spaced about from the edges of the band 2 so as to leave lines 4, free from extraneous coloring matter, .between said parts.

The provision of the two stripes 3 3 makes the shingle reversible endwise. If desired the stripes may be applied to both surfaces so as to permit also of facial reversibility. Furthermore, it is to be understood that the shingle may be surfaced with particles of crushed slate or other suitable surfacing material.

In laying a roof covering with my irnproved shingles, I first lay a row, such for example as the row ,.and then align the butt ends of the shingles in the succeeding row B with the unpainted line 4 atthe eX- posed ends of the shingles in row A. It will be seen, therefore, vthat the unpainted lines 4 servehv as guages for properly laying the shingles, and that when thus laid the dark stripes 3 will extend beyond the butts and will simulate shadows.

While I prefer to provide the shingles with the intermediate bands 2, so as to produce an illusion of shadows between the side 'edges ofadjacent shingles, as seen in Fig.

2, I do not limit my invention in this respect. If desired the shingles may be made without bands 2, in which event the inner edge of one or the other of the stripes 3, depending upon which end of the shingle is exposed, will serveas a guage mark for the butt of the superposed shingle.

What I claim is: i

1. A prepared roofing shingle having two transverse stripes in substantially the middle third portion, the innermost edges of the stripes being located inward from the upper and lower shingle-edges respectively, substantially the distance that the shingle-ends are intended to be exposed when laid, said stripes being of a dark color and contrasting with the color of the shingle-ends.

and contrasting with the color of the shin-` gle-ends.

3. A roof covering comprising a plurality of prepared roofing shingles each having two transverse stripes in substantially its middle third portion, the innermost. edges of the stripes being located inward from the upper and lower shingle-edges respectively, substantially the distance that the shingleends are intended to be exposed when laid, said stripes being of adark color and contrasting with the color of the shingle-ends, said shingles being land noverlapping courses w1th either endex'posed indiscriminately and with the butts of the shingles of eac overlying course bordering on the stripes .of the exposed ends of the shingles of each underlying course, whereby to produce a simulation of shadows along the butts.

HERBERT ABRAHAM. 

